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Comment Re:Elephant in the room? (Score 3, Interesting) 204

by pmike_bauer on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @02:50PM (#34321194) Attached to: The Details of Oracle's JDK 7 and 8 'Plan B'

Please, no.
Reified generics at the JVM level has unintended consequences for other language implementations targeting the JVM.

Ola Bini has an excellent take on why it's best to keep reified generics out of the JVM.
http://olabini.com/blog/2010/07/questioning-the-reality-of-generics/

Comment Re:Mosaic (Score 1) 367

by pmike_bauer on Thursday May 14, 2009 @01:00PM (#27952897) Attached to: The More Popular the Browser, the Slower It Is

No, telnet to port 80

Kids these days...can't use their imagination.

Comment Hunt for Osama - OSS/Google mashup (Score 1) 127

by pmike_bauer on Monday January 07, 2008 @05:14PM (#21946690) Attached to: Using Google Earth to Find Ancient Cities

Next on Google Eearth...
Find Osama!

Taking a page from OSS philosophy, "with many eyeballs, all hiding places become shallow"

Sperm Could Power Nanobots 259

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday January 02, 2008 @03:26PM from the make-sure-you-pick-the-best-swimmers dept.

Lucas123 writes "According to MSNBC, scientists are experimenting with using a sperm's flagellum to overcome the problem of supplying energy to nanobots that could be implanted in the body as smart probes that would release disease-fighting drugs, monitor enzymes and perform other medical roles within a patient's body. Powered by a compound called adenosine triphosphate or ATP, a sperm's flagellum can propel it at about 7 inches an hour. Energy from ATP could also power the pumps charged with dispensing the medication at a certain rate from the nanobots."

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